H-E-B

Marketing Design Manager - Digital, Content & Activations

H-E-B$85K — $110K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of experience in creative leadership in digital environments, preferably retail or agency.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing high-level conceptual thinking and successful digital/social campaigns.
  • Deep knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, digital production workflows, and social platforms.
  • Player-coach mentality with a history of leading teams through growth and change.
  • Exceptional communication skills to convey creative vision to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire a team of Creative Designers to foster innovation and promote professional development.
  • Guard the brand's visual identity, ensuring all creative work maintains a unified aesthetic.
  • Drive the ideation of groundbreaking concepts that challenge traditional creative limits.
  • Serve as the expert on social media trends and digital platforms, translating insights into creative ideas.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive branding across all digital touchpoints.
  • Oversee the creative process from brainstorming to delivery, ensuring high-quality digital assets that meet business goals.
  • Proactively implement modern workflows and tools, including AI-assisted innovations, to enhance efficiency.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a creative team in a dynamic retail environment.
  • Access to cutting-edge digital tools and technologies.
  • Professional development and mentorship opportunities in creative leadership.
  • Chance to influence brand direction and strategy at a high level.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Digital engagement isn't just about placing banners-it's about creating culture-defining moments, interactive digital experiences, and grassroots activations that capture attention in seconds. If you live for scroll-stopping ideas, emerging digital trends, and creative concepting that mobilizes communities, we're looking for you. We are seeking a hands-on Marketing Design Manager - Digital, Content & Activations to co-lead the visual creative strategy across our screen-first and content touchpoints.

In this role, you will focus purely on digital conceptualization, campaign activations, motion direction, and content collaboration. Supported by a team of Digital Production Designers who manage mechanical asset builds and re-sizing, you will serve as a lead practitioner ("player-coach") partnering closely with our Content Managers. Together, you will develop bold digital ideas, social-first campaigns, and grassroots community activations that elevate the brand across every screen.

Key Responsibilities
  • Digital Conceptualization & Activations: Lead the visual ideation for digital campaigns, social activations, interactive ad units, and grassroots digital moments. Translate campaign briefs into high-impact digital concepts that spark conversation and drive customer engagement.
  • Content Strategy Partnership: Partner side-by-side with the Content Manager to brainstorm, design, and activate agile, trend-aware content. Co-create storyboards, campaign overlays, video graphics, and social concepts that feel fresh, modern, and platform-native.
  • Art Direction for Digital & Motion: Establish the visual standards, animation pacing, UI patterns, and motion graphic guidelines for all screen-first channels. Guide creative designers in turning high-level concepts into dynamic visual assets.
  • Grassroots & Trend Innovation: Stay deeply plugged into internet culture, emerging digital platforms, and local Texas community trends. Pioneer grassroots digital ideas (such as user-generated content prompts, local influencer toolkits, interactive polls, and location-based digital experiences) that build genuine connection.
  • Test-and-Learn Mindset: Collaborate with digital marketing and content teams to interpret performance data and A/B test creative concepts-using engagement metrics to refine bold ideas rather than playing it safe.

Qualifications
  • Experience: 6-8+ years in digital design, social/content creative, or digital agency environments, with at least 2-3 years leading creative teams focused on digital campaigns, activations, or art direction.
  • Portfolio: A dynamic portfolio demonstrating master digital concepting, campaign activations, motion direction (After Effects/video integration), social content strategy, and mobile-first visual systems.
  • Technical Mastery: Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma (or Sketch), motion graphics tools (After Effects), and a deep understanding of interactive media and social platforms.
  • Leadership Style: A collaborative "player-coach" who thrives in brainstorms, rapid digital prototyping, and joint creative problem-solving with content creators.
  • Creative Bravery: Demonstrated ability to push past static templates to create interactive, viral, or grassroots digital campaigns that build active brand advocacy.

Core Competencies
  • Conceptual & Grassroots Vision: Ability to invent fresh, community-focused digital concepts that get people talking, sharing, and participating.
  • Content & Motion Craft: Mastery of visual pacing, motion design, and platform-specific aesthetics that hold attention on mobile feeds.
  • Cross-Functional Synergy: Seamless collaboration with Content Managers, digital strategists, and production designers.
  • Agile Execution: Ability to move fast, capitalize on cultural moments, and turn trend opportunities into polished digital creative overnight.

About H-E-B

H-E-B is a privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 340 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer. As of 2021, the company has a total revenue of $32 billion. H-E-B was named Retailer of the Year in 2010 by Progressive Grocer.
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